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I'm agreeing with you. I still think brownlows have plenty of significance. But of course the Moneyball story helped remind people that stats can be misleading. IGNORE So hard to say... Maybe Geelong will buck the trend but sides that get thrashed in the Grand final tend to have enough year the following. IGNORE A @Demonland I want to scream out every rude word I know. So often something weird happens and I'm stuck with stuff I started or didn't want to keep and then it's not easy to just delete it in one fellsweep. Even if I close a post and try and start a fresh I get this rubbish almost like a virus with a cold sore meaning they keep returning. Please tell me how to fix all these right now - it's making commenting on here infuriating. And often I have to click about six times to get into notifications and get them loading and I'm not using an ancient piece of technology here. And other times I cannot click on reactions , or if I do it only lets me click the "like " one and then sends me to the top of the page. I don't remember this annoying stuff before the reset a few months back.

I'm agreeing with you. I still think brownlows have plenty of significance. But of course the Moneyball story helped remind people that stats can be misleading.

If you see someone six feet tall standing beside someone seven feet the shorter person actually can seem to be short. Similarly it may be more that Gee long were hopeless. It's opening round. There's s more than six months until the grand final. Anyone who's backd Suns or Petracca to do well this year has every reason to be excited but I've seen so many false dawns. Surely we have not forgotten how Melbourne looked good early in 2024 and ended up 14th. And Brisbane did not look like the best side early the last two years. And we won our first 10 in 2022 and didn't even win a final. It's like our horse is last with 1000 m to go in the Melbourne cup. All I know is do not rip up your ticket yet.

Yep! I can understand how a triple double became a thing in basketball and I can understand why a century or half century became milestones in cricket. But 130 Brownlow votes never became a particular milestone

It's all depends on whether Petracca gets back to pre-injury form. If he play the next five years about the same level as the last one we have won the trade exchange by a big margin. I'm pleasantly surprised what Suns traded. Even if there were no rumours of players clashing with Petracca, at 30 and after such a horrific injury and even with his premiership medallion accomplished he may even retire after three years in the Gold coast with plenty of money, his brand and without the unwavering motivation needed to again be a vital cog in a premiership team.

Actually clarry has only kicked 58 goals (and 121 Brownlow votes). Maybe Petracca is not a has been. But his goals and Brownlow votes really dropped off last year. Clearly possessions are not the be all an end all. I reckon the journo went out of his way how to turn Petraccas Suns debut into spin. I mean Tracc has EXACTLY 130 votes and 202 goals(!). A little less of either of them and he would have cherry picked some other BS. I'd feel a little sorry if any Suns fan falls for this and instead of having Petracca circa 2022 they watch last year's shadow.

They ain't half talking up Petracca over on the Suns site https://www.goldcoastfc.com.au/news/1965298/trac-on-the-cusp-of-5000

I'd say you're right about locker numbers. I guess each club has at least 50 of them. While I guess it's handy that if a player gets number seven and six and eight are the leaders of the midfield it might help slightly. But surely people don't just have to stand around their lockers. I'm sure I've learned things from people in cubicles more than right next to mine and there'll be so many ways an opportunities for number 47 to speak to number three and number seven and the captain and so forth. While someone like van Rooyen getting Robert flower's jumper or Gawn getting Stynes' would have pleased them I'm not quite sure I can agree with your point. I'm sure every long-term club has famous, celebrated players with numbers in the 30s and forties that woule almost feel insulted that apparently wearing their number on one's back is belittling. Maybe new recruits each year can get the lowest jumper numbers with the first recruited getting the lowest and the latest getting the highest of those. But even then there is a slight hierarchy with draft picks and I'm sure at times the first 38 numbers are already taken come pre-season so no matter what some new recruits are going to have numbers around the 40 mark. I reckon a lot of us would have been to uni and honestly once you're there you're in a course and no one cares what score you got in year 12 , or if you're now in medicine after having to do two years of an arts degree to reach the same "level". I would say, and I would hope, that the moment a recruit starts at a club as much as possible everyone treats him as a potential Superstar. I don't think Brown can complain that he didn't make it because of a jumper number. I'm sure the occasional player even was spurred on more to show his club that him in number 43 could be a champion.

Was that trade something like pick 6 for Hogan which we then traded on to the Suns for May. I can't help but think even if gets three Colemans and premiership medallions over the next three years we won big time. (There's no guarantee Hogan would ever recaptured his best staying with us.

We had 5 players in the All-Australian team in our premiership year. Over summer we have seen the last of three of them. There's certainly a lot of change about.

Im guessing even Kayo won't bother with that.

Is this the start of the zombie apocalypse? 😢 Maybe this clip is where we got the idea to use soccer balls(!)

Maybe Max and co could reenact Custer's last stand using interpretive dance.

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I agree wholeheartedly. I don't know why anyone wants to be aggressive on here or even knock someone for what they perceive to be a stupid question. Then again I saw this kind of stuff on forums before actual social media really existed more than 20 years ago. I can't remember every detail about Kentfield. I've obviously been preoccupied with much bigger events in my own life. The main thing I remember about Luker was that despite an interrupted pre-season last year he sounded really promising in the reserves. I can't remember his facial injury. Geez, most people don't remember what they had for dinner last night let alone what happens in the preseason to 40 something players. Anyway I'm just thrilled that we got through our first test ....and with flying colours. Bellissimo!